One of the tasks I've been meaning to do for a while was automate running Photomatix. For those who don't know Photomatix's is a really cool bit of software that allows you to do HDR pictures. While good fun to use to see what you can create, I often find I can while away the day just doing this.....

To get round this I want to run a script to process my files as a quick'n'dirty first pass, so I can see what I've got to work with. In the last post we talked about using the PowerShell Exif Image module from James O'Neill. This time I'm going to use it to read the Exposure Bias from the Exif JPG data. Mostly when I'm doing HDR pictures I use 0, -2, 2 as the bracket so I'm going to use that as the step (the script will actually let you specify this).

A few words of warning....1. Microsoft don't really like people using "c:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation", there are other ways that you can do this2. Don't put this in your start up folder without testing it.3. I accept no responsibilities if you break anything :-)